toastednz

This video is at the top of reddit, but it doesn't show any real evidence of doctored videos.

Although google prevented affiliate monetisation on the video as seen on the affiliate earning graph, they probably have some intermediate step whereby they still show ads but the affiliate doesn't get paid for them.

Secondly, where the same video was shown with multiple different ads and the same view count - youtube video view counts dont increase in real time. You can push refresh on a video a few times and you will likely get 3 different ads with the same viewcount recorded.

I wish they were doctored images, but I don't think this is evidence of that.

Also, when did social justice trolling become a business model for the WSJ? First pewdiepie, now this?

I've nominated Alexandra Elbakyan of sci-hub and encourage everyone else to do the same.

I'd also be happy if Aaron Swartz won!

love bitnami - you guys have helped me so much on AWS!

I think Bill Gates would agree that when you control the philanthropic funds of the 2 richest people on earth then you have some obligation to spend the money in proportion to the importance of the issues being addressed.

I won't argue the relative merits of the marginal value of a human life vs. mass extinction of species because I'm sure we both have different values underlying our respective views and will never convince each other of anything.

I find Gates' lack of focus on environmental issues disheartening. I know he does invest in clean energy and feels strongly about climate change, but this doesn't really do anything to prevent deforestation NOW. I know that bringing people out of poverty may have a side-effect of improving some environmental parameters, but it also makes whole swathes of people start demanding more meat, more palm oil, more cars, more disposable goods. The big international benefactors don't seem that interested in rainforest biodiversity.